A Practical Guide to Biotechnology: Design, Manufacture and Applications

The biotechnology industry uses biosystems based on living or non-living organisms/cell/biocatalysts to transform renewable resources into products that have medicinal, plastic, fuel, and chemical uses. A Practical Guide to Biotechnology: Design, Manufacture and Applications provides a solid foundation, using real world examples, on how biotechnology is being applied to the industrial manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and bio-based products. The book covers methods on how to take the biotechnology process from the research and discovery stage to scale-up and production, with practical process solutions for designing a biological facility as well as the basics of operating and maintaining equipment.